flebber wrote:
so in my file I had on line 44 this trainer name.

"Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes"

and in line 95 this horse name. Inz'n'out

this throws of my capturing correct item 9. How do I protect against this?

Use python's csv module to read the file. Don't try to
do it yourself; the rules for handling embedded commas
and quotes in csv are quite complicated. As long as
the file is a well-formed csv file, the csv module
should parse fields like that correctly.

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